On 11/17/2011 05:15 PM, Mohammed Naser wrote: I can get the current state from the Libvirt::Domain#state method, yes. What I'm looking for is the constant explaining *why/how* the domain is in that state. :-( It looks as though a) the Ruby bindings don't explicitly call that out, and b) therefore there's no access method to the virDomainXXXReason methods. :-( Oh well.. -- #ken B-)} Ken Coar, Sanagendamgagwedweinini IT Engineering Tower, Red Hat/RDU "Millennium hand and shrimp!"